that admitted leaking highly classified documents about the phone and internet programs, documents he acquired while working for boost alan hamilton. the newspaper published some of those. glenn greenwald obtained some of the documents and joins me by the phone and jeffrey toobin. glenn, i know you think he did patriotism of revealing those papers. what do you make of this? >> it's the absolutely atrocious record of the treatment of whistle blowers and leakers. the espionage exact is designed to criminal wise descent. on the a total of three leaker haves been prosecuted under that statute in the pre-obama era. we now have seven, double the number, of previous presidents combined. this is why james good all who is the general counsel during